Sandboxes are a type of MMO that emphasize player freedom and expression. They frequently include mechanics for building, crafting, trading, character customization and development, roleplaying, destruction, and significant interaction with the world and other players. A sandbox that is dominated by an open-PvP or free-for-all ruleset is sometimes pejoratively called a gankbox. Contrast with the themepark.
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One Shots: Walk of shame
From Zulika Mi-Nam's Adventures in Tale of Toast:
Log into a game to do some play testing.
"Hey, look at these cutsie graphics and...
Dual Universe on playtesting, the planetary map, and summer cons
Kickstarted indie sci-fi sandbox Dual Universe has posted its monthly update this week with a meaty dev vlog from Novaquark's JC Baillie.
Baillie says that...
Project Gorgon improves storage and guild systems
One complaints that Project Gorgon testers have expressed during the alpha is that inventory and storage is both limiting and cluttered. The small dev...
The Stream Team: Living in a Pixel Worlds world
What is a social sandbox, you ask? Well MassivelyOP's MJ is going to find out! So far she knows it involves pixels: Pixel Worlds launches...
Hands-on with Path of Exile’s upcoming The Fall of Oriath expansion
If you were given the opportunity to jump in and experience Path of Exile upcoming The Fall of Oriath expansion early, you would, wouldn't...
EVE Online players own over a quadrillion ISK
EVE Online is often joked about as being "spreadsheets in space," but that doesn't exclude bar charts and other types of graphs in participating...
Star Citizen Around the Verse: Manchester’s work on 3.0 and ship migration progress
This week's Around the Verse has arrived for Star Citizen fans, helmed by both Chris Roberts and Sandi Gardiner. This episode has a crapton...
Dark and Light opens beta signups, posts new trailer
Snail Games hasn't officially confirmed rumors from earlier this week that its revivified MMORPG sandbox Dark and Light is launching alongside the Steam summer...
The Daily Grind: Has a soundtrack ever inspired you to try out an MMORPG?
Massively OP reader Andrea has a fun question for us today. "I've been perusing through different MMO soundtracks these past days and some of...
Massively Overthinking: MMO monetization run amok
Over the last couple of weeks, the monetization of unreleased games has become a pervasive and uncomfortable theme for the MMO genre. Just in...
Multiplayer sandbox Astroneer publishes development roadmap, teases themed spacesuits
If No Man's Sky didn't exactly scratch your itch for multiplayer interplanetary exploration, mining, and crafting, then Astroneer is suiting up right now to...
Epic’s shooter/sandbox hybrid Fortnite hits early access July 25
Way back in 2011, Epic Games announced Fortnite, an "action building game" that functions as a bit of a co-op-shooter-slash-survival-sandbox. You'd be forgiven for...
The Stream Team: Entering the gates of RuneScape’s Menaphos
RuneScape just opened up a giant city of Menaphos. Do want to peek inside and see what is different in the game's first big...
SWTOR lists class specs slated for Update 5.3 love
BioWare has informed players that some of Star Wars: The Old Republic's advanced classes and disciplines will be getting some changes and love with this...
Perfect Ten: MMORPGs that died too soon
Your favorite game is going to die. I wrote about that. Some games are never even going to get to launching in the first...
E3 2017: Nexon’s dinosaur MMO Durango launches Q4 this year
I've been to Colorado's Durango many times, and I can assure you that there are no dinosaurs there. Nexon's Durango, however, is overrun with...
MapleStory drops a trailer for its June and July Override updates
Nexon's wildly popular sidescrolly MMO MapleStory is gearing up for two new updates this summer that'll "allow players to strengthen their characters with new...
Black Desert’s patch today extends loyalty events with new rewards
This Black Desert penguin, complete with lens flare, would like to come home with you. He's part of the game's new round of loyalty...
Tamriel Infinium: Elder Scrolls Online Morrowind is the MMO you want and don’t want
I have been head-over-heels for Elder Scrolls Online since One Tamriel, and the Morrowind chapter has only added to my enthusiasm for the game....
Old School RuneScape players threaten to riot over LGBTQ pride event
Old School RuneScape's playerbase isn't showing its best side this week.
Motherboard reports that following the announcement by a Jagex employee that a small gay...
